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Video & Audio Production
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What is this tool?

Trint is a newsroom tool before it is a transcription service. Colleagues watch a live transcript and play back any line while the event is still running; Story Builder turns marked quotes into a rough cut that exports as EDL, XML or DOCX; and the security page answers most of a compliance review from a public page — ISO 27001, a choice of EU or US storage, no training on your recordings. Two things are not on the public site: plan names and prices live inside the app, and screen capture plus automatic speaker and language recognition are labelled enterprise-only.

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Drop an MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC or MP4/MOV/AVI/WMA file into the dashboard, choose a language and a timecoded transcript opens in the Trint Editor, where text edits stay locked to the audio and highlight and comment tools let colleagues work on the same document. Everything you keep goes into Shared Drives with a global search across transcripts, so a quote from last season is findable without reopening the file — which is the part that turns a year of recordings into an asset rather than an archive. Nine export formats cover text, subtitles and edit-ready timelines.

The live path is the other half of the product. The mobile app records and transcribes in the field, the desktop app captures whatever is on screen, and LiveU units and Sony cameras can stream straight in, with the live text also surfacing inside the Mimir and Saga media asset managers and the AP ENPS and Octopus Newsroom production systems. Reporters and editors in different places read the same feed, rewind to hear a contested line and start drafting before the event ends. Which of those live capabilities you get depends on plan: the vendor's own apps page flags screen and device capture and in-document speaker and language recognition as enterprise-only, so ask that question before a trial rather than after.

On commercials: the desktop and mobile apps are free to download for licence holders, an API key is issued from the API page inside the product, and archive transcription through BulkScribe is quoted rather than listed. One structural point for anyone recording third parties: the platform privacy policy dated 4 August 2026 names the account holder as controller of Content Data and Trint as processor, so consent, notices and deletion decisions sit with you, not the vendor.

Is this right for you?

Quick fit check against how you actually work.

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Choose this if
  • Several people need to verify and edit the same transcript at once, including outside collaborators who do not hold a Trint subscription
  • Your deliverable is a rough cut or an article draft rather than a transcript, so Story Builder's EDL/XML and DOCX exports remove an editing pass
  • Your recordings already sit in AP ENPS, Octopus Newsroom, Mimir, Saga, Zoom, Dropbox, Box, Google Drive or OneDrive, all of which Trint documents as integrations
  • Legal or compliance review will ask where recordings are stored, who can see them and whether they train models, and you want vendor statements on each point
  • You hold an archive of past footage to make searchable and are prepared to take a BulkScribe API quote rather than a list price
Consider alternatives if
  • You want to see prices before creating an account, because trint.com's Pricing link goes to a page inside the app rather than to a public price list
  • You expect screen capture or automatic speaker and language recognition in a live session on a standard plan, since the apps page labels those enterprise-only
  • Your recordings run past three hours or 3GB, or you want to transcribe from a URL such as a YouTube link, which Trint's FAQ says it does not accept
  • You need one uploaded recording transcribed in two or more languages, which the web app does not produce
  • You would run speaker detection on people who have not consented, because Trint's privacy policy makes the account holder responsible for the legal basis and notices covering the resulting biometric voiceprint data

Key features

What you can actually do with this tool.

Trint Live: a transcript your whole desk can watch and play back

Live transcription runs from a phone microphone, a desktop screen or a camera/broadcast feed, and everyone with access sees the same text appear. Click a line to hear it while the event continues; on mobile the transcript keeps running through a dropped connection and catches up afterwards.

Story Builder: from highlighted quotes to a rough cut

Mark moments in one or more transcripts, drag them into a new order, add headings and notes for the editor, then export an article as .DOCX or a timeline as .EDL or .XML with timecodes synced to the source. This is what turns Trint from a transcript viewer into a pre-edit tool.

Caption Editor with SRT, VTT, STL and TXT export

Captions are generated from the corrected transcript, split into readable blocks with a characters-per-second counter, edited like text against timecoded playback and exported for syncing in your editing software. Caption tracks can be translated into 70+ languages.

AI Assistant that answers questions about the recording

Ask a transcript which quotes support your story or what one speaker said, get a customisable summary or a first draft, and jump from the answer to the exact point in the audio. Live highlighting proposes moments as they are spoken, with the reasoning shown.

50+ transcription languages, 70+ translation languages, one language per upload

Uploaded files transcribe in more than 50 languages and translate into more than 70, and translation runs on desktop or mobile. A live session can switch languages as speakers change; an upload cannot, which matters for mixed-language interviews.

Security and data-handling controls documented for compliance review

ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials certification, a choice of EU or US storage on AWS, TLS 1.2 in transit and AES 256 at rest, granular access permissions, a stated rule that employees do not look at user data without permission, and a stated policy of not training on your recordings.

Integrations

Tools and platforms this connects with.

AP ENPSOctopus NewsroomMimirSagaLiveUSony CamerasZoomDropboxBoxGoogle DriveOneDriveZapier

Frequently asked

Common questions about this tool, answered.

Is there a free plan, and where is the pricing?

Trint describes a free trial of 7 days' access with no credit card required, and no free plan alongside it. Plan names and prices live at app.trint.com/plans, which is where the public site's Pricing link sends you, so expect to begin sign-up before you see a number.

Can Trint transcribe an interview where people switch between languages?

In a live session, yes: the live app can detect more than 50 languages and switch between them as it transcribes. For an uploaded file the answer is different: the web app recognises more than 50 languages but each uploaded file comes back in one language only, so a bilingual recording needs to be handled as a live capture or in separate files.

Does the Story Builder EDL export line up in Premiere or Avid?

Trint's rough-cut export is an .EDL or .XML file whose timecodes follow the source transcript. The recurring question under Trint's own EDL tutorial is what happens when the file you uploaded to Trint is a low-resolution screener or an Avid grouped clip rather than the media in your sequence; two editors asked exactly that and Trint pointed one to support instead of answering in the thread. Test your own proxy workflow during the trial before relying on it.

Who can see my recordings and how long are they kept?

Trint's security page says employees never look at user data without permission, recordings are not used to train its algorithms, data sits in AWS regions in the EU or US at your choice, and uploaded media stays for as long as the subscription runs unless you arrange secure deletion, which is offered at termination or monthly on request. The platform privacy policy states retention differently, keeping Content Data until you delete the transcript or the account, adds that Speaker Detection creates biometric voiceprint data for which you as account holder must hold the legal basis and consents, and lists Anthropic among its sub-processors alongside AWS, Auth0, UploadCare and Stripe.

How it compares

Context for choosing between this tool and alternatives.

This is built for recordings more than one person needs to touch. A live feed several colleagues read at once, a transcript they highlight and comment on together, a rough cut handed to a cutter with timecodes intact, a feed appearing inside the newsroom system the desk already uses — each of those removes a hand-off, and hand-offs are what it should be priced against. A single user who records, transcribes and writes alone is buying all of it and using none of it.